13 Highly Shorted Healthcare Dividend Stocks

Healthcare dividend stocks with the highest float short ratio originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Selling a stock short is a popular method by investors to make a capital gain in a falling market. If investors believe that the stock price should fall, they borrow shares of the company and sell them on the market in order to hope that the stock price falls much more and that he can buy back the borrowed shares for a cheaper price.

Activists often sell stocks short. They try to scary other investors. Today I like to show you which of the healthcare stocks have the highest float short ratio. The ratio shows you how many shares have been sold short. It’s ever interesting to see which companies have some problems and investors like to speculate on a falling stock price. The higher the ratio is, the bigger the problems of the company.

These are my criteria:

- Positive Dividend Yield

- Healthcare Sector Relationship

- Float Short Ratio over 5 percent

Thirteen healthcare dividend stocks have fulfilled these criteria. Eight of them have a current buy or better rating.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 13, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks May 13, 2013. In total, 61 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 26 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.70%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.	ARR	2.39B	8.08	0.88	6.48	13.17%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.35B	13.80	2.60	2.06	4.34%
Consolidated Edison Inc.	ED	18.24B	17.40	1.53	1.48	3.95%
Vectren Corporation	VVC	3.03B	19.15	1.95	1.30	3.86%
ALLETE, Inc.	ALE	2.06B	20.12	1.70	2.15	3.68%
Exelon Corporation	EXC	30.55B	31.88	1.43	1.23	3.47%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	50.35B	21.88	4.11	1.46	3.29%
Xilinx Inc.	XLNX	10.09B	21.67	3.41	4.65	2.59%
Enbridge Inc.	ENB	39.08B	61.68	3.71	1.56	2.59%
Southwest Gas Corporation	SWX	2.37B	18.02	1.80	1.23	2.58%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	11.95B	-	1.22	1.63	2.34%
Target Corp.	TGT	44.78B	15.41	2.72	0.61	2.06%
IAC/InterActiveCorp.	IACI	4.35B	26.89	2.50	1.55	1.95%
TIM Participacoes S.A.	TSU	9.91B	13.75	1.44	1.06	1.85%
The Kroger Co.	KR	18.09B	12.54	4.25	0.19	1.73%
Teleflex Incorporated	TFX	3.26B	25.66	1.93	2.06	1.72%
Jabil Circuit Inc.	JBL	3.92B	10.69	1.80	0.22	1.65%
Delphi Automotive PLC	DLPH	14.41B	14.63	6.01	0.93	1.48%
TCF Financial Corporation	TCB	2.46B	26.82	1.31	2.82	1.33%
Pool Corp.	POOL	2.40B	30.46	8.37	1.22	1.24%

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